Now that the Republicans have to stop demonizing the
President as a monster hell-bent on circumventing the Constitution, public
opinion on the Affordable Health Care Act may change. Watch Mitt Romney stop talking about health
care, altogether. Avoidance is his
style, anyway. Given the history of
health care reform in Massachusetts – and the former Governor’s place in
implementing it – it’s the last thing he wants to talk about. He will go back to talking about jobs, jobs,
jobs, jobs, at least from the Bain & Company perspective. The jobs talk is what candidate Obama will be
running against. Starting, now.
Republicans say they will continue to harp on this through
November. Maybe they will, and maybe
they won’t. Romney himself, won’t.
This was in part, a moral decision on the part of Chief
Justice Roberts. To the extent that the
Republicans had nothing to counter offer in the area of health care reform,
lack of imagination worked against them on this one. There are ramifications to lack of leadership.
It will be interesting to see if Republicans can get beyond
their disdain for this law and the line-in-the-sand they have drawn. The “stark choice” discourse they are
presenting. The “American’s will have
the choice to overturn in November…” dialogue.
If they don’t have something concrete to offer, they will
lose again.
Lack of imagination, has consequences.
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